Love

& Sons

Bill Nighy heads a stellar cast, which includes Imelda Staunton, Johnny Flynn and George MacKay, playing a Lear-like figure with a reputation for leaving destruction in his wake.

Calle Malaga

Carmen Maura excels as the Tangier-born Spaniard who is determined to hold on to the home she has lived in for 40 years, in Maryam Touzani’s bittersweet drama.

D is for Distance

This deeply personal rumination on memory and the moving image offers a frank and uncompromising insight into medical bureaucracy.

Endless Cookie

The classic hangout film gets a charming, witty and politically sharp make-over with this inventive animation that explores the complex and enduring bond of family.

Father Mother Sister Brother

Jim Jarmusch’s rewarding multi-narrative chronicle of familial estrangement finds emotionally distant parents and their siblings reuniting in an attempt to reconnect.

The Girls

This sensitive portrait of women’s status in Sri Lanka is a key work by pioneering filmmaker Sumitra Peries.

Human Resource

Celebrated writer-director Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit returns with a measured and philosophical urban drama, told from the perspective of a reserved HR manager.

Kim Novak’s Vertigo

Alexandre O. Philippe’s latest film essay is a conversation with cinema icon and mental health activist Kim Novak about Hollywood, ghosts and finding herself as an artist.

Left-Handed Girl

Shih-Ching Tsou’s dynamic debut, co-written with Sean Baker, follows a family of women as they return to Taipei to embark on a new life.

Love, Brooklyn

André Holland, Nicole Beharie and DeWanda Wise dazzle in Rachael Abigail Holder’s charming ode to love, loss and one of New York’s most beloved boroughs.

Love Me Tender

Vicky Krieps is magnetic as a woman paying a high price to be free in this luminous and radical commentary on motherhood, desire and self-discovery.

The Love That Remains

A couple in the throes of separation find unexpected joys in family, art, routine and maybe something deeper, in this playful and surprising drama.

Resurrection

Masterful Chinese director Bi Gan returns with a film that entrances with its daring and beauty.

Romeria

Memory proves messy and contested in this perceptive and exquisitely realised treatment of a young woman’s visit to her late father’s extended and affluent family.

A Sad and Beautiful World

This achingly romantic and emotionally resonant drama from celebrated filmmaker Cyril Aris flourishes with charm and humour, underpinned by moments of melancholy.

The Souffleur

Willem Dafoe excels as the manager of a luxury hotel who decides to sabotage the plans of the Argentine developer who has acquired it.

The Thing with Feathers

Benedict Cumberbatch gives a magnificent performance in the highly anticipated screen adaptation of Max Porter’s award-winning Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.

Train Dreams

The verdant forests of the western US provide a breathtaking backdrop to this spiritually profound meditation on tragedy and healing, which features a sensitive performance by Joel Edgerton.